Responsible Investment.Helping to shape the future of investing responsibly.

Our Commitment

Responsible investing is no longer optional. As the investment management industry has matured and institutionalised, it has become increasingly responsive to the requirements of the investors who charge it with stewardship of their capital – the more they see mitigating environmental, social and governance risks as part of that stewardship, the more our industry must do to further those interests.

RI Committee

Responsible Investing at Man Group

Man Group maintains a Responsible Investment Committee and firm-wide Responsible Investment policies that support globally-recognised norms. We also encourage our individual investment management businesses to develop and integrate responsible investing ('RI') approaches that are relevant to their investment strategies.

What is responsible investing?

Responsible investing focuses on the development, integration and application of non-financial considerations – environmental, social and governance ('ESG') factors – in the investment decision-making process. While RI has traditionally been used to express an investor’s specific worldview or ethical preferences, more rigorous applications are emerging. ESG analysis, combined with active ownership (engagement and voting), is increasingly enabling investors to better understand and mitigate long-term, non-financial risks.

Man Group subscribes to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment ('PRI') definition:

"Responsible investment is an approach to investing that aims to incorporate environmental, social and governance factors into investment decisions, to better manage risk and generate sustainable, long-term returns."

Our approach

At Man Group, we recognise that responsible investment is fundamental to our fiduciary duty to our clients and beneficiaries. We understand the importance of sound stewardship in managing investors’ capital, and our approach to RI closely aligns us with the values of our clients, shareholders, and other stakeholders.

Man Group takes a diversified approach to RI across its investment engines, recognising the importance of a responsible approach across all asset classes and investment strategies. We believe that our broad range of strategies – including active management, systematic and quantitative strategies, private markets as well as investment and advisory services – provides deep insight into the development of ESG investment. Our collective RI approaches enable us to better protect and enhance the value of our clients’ investments in a way that fulfils our obligations as an active owner and responsible manager.

Policies

Man AHL is a pioneer of systematic trading, bringing a scientific, empirical mind-set to investing. For thirty years, Man AHL has applied a systematic approach to the development and deployment of investment strategies which are largely quantitative and rely on large datasets to which are applied complex financial, econometric and statistical theories through proprietary research and modelling.

Policy

Man Numeric is an institutional manager focused on strategies ranging from long-only, active extension, and market neutral equities across geographic regions, investment styles and capitalisation strata. As a signatory of the UN PRI since 2014, Man Numeric is committed to a socially-responsible investment approach that combines best practices in environmental, social and governance analysis with the interests and values of our clients.

Policy

Man GLG is a discretionary investment manager that delivers absolute return and long-only investment strategies across asset classes, sectors and geographies. As a signatory of UN PRI since 2012, Man GLG is committed to a socially-responsible investment approach that combines best practices in environmental, social and governance analysis with the interests and values of our clients.

Policy

Man FRM, as a hedge fund investment specialist, engages its sub-managers to promote the inclusion of ESG factors into their investment processes, policies and practices. Man FRM also promotes the acceptance of the UN PRI with our sub-advisors and encourages their participation as signatories to the Principles.

Policy

Stewardship

We strive to meet the evolving needs of our clients in the context of a rapidly changing regulatory environment. Environmental, social and governance ('ESG') criteria are a key part of our stewardship responsibility, and we are committed to furthering the interests of our clients in this area.

We understand the importance of a robust infrastructure when it comes to investing responsibly. At Man Group, each portfolio manager benefits from the support and resources needed to integrate ESG factors into their investment process.

Our sophisticated, firm-wide technology platform allows us to approach ESG from a systematic, fundamental or negative screening perspective. The services of external ESG specialists, as well as research produced by our in-house analysts, ensure that portfolio managers are well positioned to consider and capitalise on ESG factors in their investment decisions.

Active engagement

Our discretionary portfolio managers actively engage with the executives and senior management of companies in their portfolios. Not only does this allow us to help shape these companies’ futures in a responsible manner, but it also supports our broader goal of moving our investment portfolios towards higher ESG standards.

Affiliations

As part of our commitment to responsible investment, we are proud to be involved with the organisations and ESG-related initiatives listed as a member, supporter or in an advisory capacity.

We understand the importance of a robust infrastructure when it comes to investing responsibly. We are represented on a number of industry committees and working groups, including:

Proxy voting

Our proxy voting practices are designed to ensure that regulatory requirements are adhered to, and votes cast in the best interest of our clients. To assist with our proxy voting responsibilities, we have appointed a proxy voting adviser to provide analysis, research, and voting recommendations.

We generally vote in accordance with the recommendations of our proxy voting advisor, where their proxy voting guidelines and recommendations aim to increase shareholder value.

However, we are not bound by their advice, and would not support current management initiatives that are not in the best interests of our clients.

Man Group is a proud signatory of to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (‘PRI’), a network of international investors working together to put the six principles for responsible investment into practice. The PRI is a voluntary framework designed to encourage sustainable investing by incorporating ESG issues into investment decision-making and ownership practices and better align their objectives with those of the community.

Established in 2008, the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) (previously known as the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB)) is a standard-setting body for the alternative investment industry and custodian of the Alternative Investment Standards. The SBAI provides a powerful mechanism for creating a framework of transparency, integrity and good governance which improves how the alternative investment industry operates, facilitates investor due diligence and complements public policy. Man Group is a founding signatory of the SBAI, and Luke Ellis, Man Group’s CEO, is a member of the Board of Trustees.

Alternative Investment Management Association ('AIMA') promotes the best interests of the alternative investment industry in order to enhance the wider understanding of its function. AIMA is closely aligned with policy makers, legislators and regulatory authorities around the world, also collaborating with key governments and authorities on proposed legislation and consultation. Robyn Grew, Man Group’s Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Counsel, sits on the AIMA Council.

Established in September 2014, the World Bank-supported Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition ('CPLC') formed from a groundswell of support for carbon pricing at the UN Climate Summit, where 74 countries and more than 1,000 companies expressed support for carbon pricing. The Coalition officially launched at COP21 in Paris, with the goal to expand the use of effective carbon pricing policies that can maintain competitiveness, create jobs, encourage innovation, and deliver meaningful emissions reductions. Man Group has been a member of the Leadership Coalition since December 2015.

Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return ('FAIRR') and its founding members believe that a worrying knowledge gap has emerged among investors in relation to the material investment risks and opportunities connected with intensive livestock farming and poor animal welfare standards. The FAIRR initiative aims to close that knowledge gap, ensuring that investors understand the risks and opportunities to emerge from this growing method of livestock production, and to support investors to assess these issues as part of their investment processes. Man Group has been partner of FAIRR since March 2017.

The Investment Association is the trade body that represents UK investment managers. Our 240 members collectively manage over £6.9 trillion on behalf of clients in the UK and around the world. The association promotes UK investment management, which is the largest industry of its kind in Europe and the second largest in the world. Man Group is a member of The Investment Association and is part of the IA’s Sustainability and Responsible Investment Committee.

Climate Action 100+ is a five-year initiative led by investors to engage with the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters to improve governance on climate change, curb emissions and strengthen climate-related financial disclosures. Man Group believes that engaging and working with the companies in which we invest – to communicate the need for greater disclosure around climate change risk and company strategies aligned with the Paris Agreement – is consistent with our fiduciary duty.

The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance enables institutional emerging market investors to support good governance, promote sustainable development, and improve investment performance in the governments and companies in which they invest. Portfolio Manager Simon Pickard, Man GLG, has been member of the Corporate Governance working group since XXXX.

Responsible Investment News & Perspectives

Responsible investing takes a number of forms, and this area of our industry is constantly evolving. We believe it is important to regularly assess and challenge the thinking in this field, examining the theory and practice which allow truly responsible approaches to add value for clients.

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Perspectives Towards a Sustainable Future

​​Perspectives Towards a Sustainable Future is a podcast series about what we are doing today to build a more sustainable world tomorrow. Each episode features a thought leader discussing an aspect of sustainability – its origin, evolution and relevance today – with Jason Mitchell, Co-Head of Responsible Investment at Man Group.

Podcast episodes

Season 3’s topics range from the evolving role of investors to the EU’s sustainable finance ambitions. Guests include Fiona Reynolds, CEO of PRI, Reinhard Buetikofer, Co-Chair of the European Greens Party and Member of the EU Parliament.

1: Reframing the Responsible Investment Norm

Investors have traditionally been left out of the dialogue between states, NGOs, civil society and corporations on social and environmental issues. Learn how that’s changing as international investor initiatives, like the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), are coalescing investor interests to replicate the success of the Paris Agreement in other dimensions, such as labour rights and economic inequality.

Fiona Reynolds

Fiona Reynolds is CEO of the UN-supported Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI). She has more than 20 years' experience in the pension sector, working in particular within the Australian superannuation sector where she played an active role in advocating pension policy change. Prior to the PRI, Fiona spent seven years as CEO of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). Fiona serves on a number of boards, including the UN Global Compact, the Council of the International Integrated Reporting Council and the Global Advisory Council on Stranded Assets at the University of Oxford. Recently, Fiona was named as one of the 2018 The Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence.

2: Politics of the (EU) Environment

How do you go about jump starting an energy transition that has to balance ambitious environmental objectives with labour stability? Learn how Germany is working towards this in a plan to phase out coal by 2030, how the EU Parliament is redefining what sustainable finance really means and why environmental politics is ultimately about people.

Reinhard Buetikofer

Reinhard Buetikofer is Co-Chair of the European Green Party and Member of the European Parliament. He sits on the Committee of Industry, Research and Energy and the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is the Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China, a member of the Delegation to the United States and a substitute member of the ASEAN Delegation. Before getting elected to the European Parliament in 2009, he was the co-chair of the German Green Party Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen.

3: A Theory of Change Starting With Savers

How are pension savers reshaping investor sand corporate responses to climate risk disclosure and gender diversity? Who speaks for them and agitates on their behalf for change? Who has their back? Learn how ShareAction’s approach to investor activism – galvanizing individual saver interests to ultimately influencing policy outcomes – creates a fairer, more responsible financial system.

Catherine Howarth

Catherine Howarth is the Chief Executive Officer of ShareAction. She is a board member of the Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian, serving on the Scott Trust’s investment committee. She serves on Her Majesty’s Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce, and was a Member Nominated Trustee of The Pensions Trust. Catherine was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014.

Bethan Livesey

Bethan Livesey is Head of Policy and leads ShareAction’s policy engagement and research work aimed at developing ShareAction’s thought leadership role in the responsible investment debate. She previously worked as a litigator in the City of London.

4: Sustainable Investing for the Real (Centuries) Long-term

What does sustainable investment mean to the world’s largest academic endowment fund? Learn how Harvard’s endowment fund, which supports 40% of the university’s research, educational programs and financial aid, has emerged as a leader among endowment funds in applying sustainable and responsible investment principles.

Michael Cappucci

Michael Cappucci is Senior Vice President at Harvard Management Company where he manages HMC’s sustainable investment program. He’s also serves on the PRI’s Hedge Fund and Private Equity Advisory Committees. Harvard Management Company manages Harvard University’s endowment. At $37.1 billion, it’s the largest academic endowment in the world. Contributions from the Harvard endowment over more than four decades have enabled industry-leading financial aid programs, ground-breaking discoveries in scientific research, and hundreds of professorships across a wide range of academic fields.

5: Making Japan Great Again Through Corporate Governance Reform

What’s the value of good governance? What’s a company’s commitment to ESG reporting and greater transparency worth? Learn the story behind Japan’s turn to corporate governance reform and how leaders like Dr Ryohei Yanagi are not only advocating for its wider adoption but also helping to define how we measure its success.

Dr Ryohei Yanagi

Dr Ryohei Yanagi is Visiting Professor at Tokyo University and Visiting Lecturer at Waseda University Graduate School of Accountancy, teaching and researching Corporate Governance, Financial Strategy and Investor Relations. He is also the CFO of Eisai, a leading Japanese pharmaceutical company with over 10,000 employees and a listing in the Topix 100. Yanagi-san is an advisor to the Japanese government and the Tokyo Stock Exchange on corporate disclosure and governance.

6: The Path Towards Best Managed, Best Governed

How can governance be traced across corporate, government and institutional investor perspectives? Why is it critical that the success of a corporate benefit not just its shareholders but also its employees? And how can markets reconcile short-term and long-term pressures? Listen to Lord Ian Livingston, Chairman of Man Group, who draws from his experiences as former CEO of BT Group and UK Minister of Trade and Investment on the nature of short termism and long termism, and why good governance is fundamental for any enterprise.

Lord Ian Livingston

Lord Ian Livingston serves as Chairman of the Board of Man Group since May 2016. He has over two decades of board level FTSE 100 experience, most recently as CEO of BT Group plc where he also served as CEO of BT Retail and as Group CFO. Prior to joining BT, he was CFO of Dixons Group plc. Lord Ian Livingston is a serving member of the House of Lords. From 2013 to 2015, he was Minister of State for Trade and Investment.

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The second podcast season’s topics range from Professor Campbell Harvey explaining why economists often underestimate the capabilities of cryptocurrencies as well as their underlying Blockchain technology, to Harriet Lamb CBE of the peacebuilding charity International Alert illustrating how NGOs are working to provide guidance to sectors like extractive industries who involved in conflict affected regions.

1: What is the Social Value of Cryptocurrencies?

Are Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple the digital currencies of the future? Or are they just another asset bubble like the 17th century Dutch tulip mania? Professor Campbell Harvey explains why economists often underestimate the capabilities of cryptocurrencies as well as their underlying Blockchain technology. He also describes why Blockchain will transform not only the fundamental security of our transactions but also help accelerate emerging countries to modernize and digitize their economies.

Professor Campbell Harvey

Professor Campbell Harvey, a leading financial economist, has been an Investment Strategy Advisor to Man Group since 2005 and has contributed to a variety of research produced by the firm. He is a Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served as Editor of The Journal of Finance from 2006 to 2012 and as the 2016 President of the American Finance Association. A distinguished academic, Professor Harvey received the 2016 and 2015 Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for the Best Article from The Journal of Portfolio Management for his research on differentiating luck from skill.

2: Just Transition: a Framework for Workers and the Environment

Nick Robins discusses why frameworks like the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) are so important to ensuring the progress of sustainable development. Nick also explains why the Just Transition – an effort that combines the climate objectives with growth in green jobs formation – is critical to tackling the issue of economic inequality.

Professor Nick Robins

Professor Nick Robins joined the Grantham Research Institute in February 2018 as Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance. Nick is also co-director of UN Environment’s Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. As co-director of the UNEP Inquiry since 2014, Nick has led country activities in Brazil, the EU, India, Italy and the UK, as well as thematic work focused on investors, insurance and green banking. He also helped to launch the Sustainable Insurance Forum for supervisors and the international network of Financial Centres for Sustainability. Before joining UNEP, he was Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC. Prior to HSBC, Nick was head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds at Henderson Global Investors. Nick has also worked at the International Institute for Environment and Development, the European Commission and the Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Do you ever find yourself imagining that the forces behind Big Oil are unstoppable, that little can be done to counter climate change? Edward Mason describes why the Church Commissioners for England, who took on Exxon in a multi-year effort to improve its climate change transparency and disclosure policies, should change that view. Learn how the Commissioners built on their early engagement successes with companies like BP and Royal Dutch Shell to help them coalesce international investor interests to ultimately confront Exxon.

Edward Mason

Edward Mason is Head of Responsible Investment at the Church Commissioners for England, ensuring that they implement their ethical and responsible investment commitments. He took up his position in August 2014 having previously served for five years as Secretary of the Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG), advising the Commissioners and other national investing bodies of the church on ethical investment. Prior to working at the Church of England, Edward served for 15 years as a British diplomat, leaving in 2005 to help establish the diplomatic advisory group Independent Diplomat. He holds a degree in History from Oxford University.

Despite its early troubles, Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) has to be recognized as the most ambitious effort to apply market-based pricing to carbon emissions. Now, more than 10 years after the launch of EU-ETS, Europe is reinforcing the integrity of its carbon market alongside the emergence of other regional carbon markets like that in China. Mark Lewis discusses how he believes these efforts will ultimately create a more material carbon price and what it means for the fossil fuel industry and its consumers in the future.

Mark Lewis

Mark Lewis is Head of Research and a Managing Director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative. For the last 15 years, Mark’s research has focused on the overlap between energy and climate change. Since May 2016 he has been a member of the UK Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Previously, he was Managing Director and Head of European Utilities Research at Barclays (2015-18), Chief Energy Economist at Kepler Cheuvreux (2014-15), and Managing Director and Global Head of Energy Research at Deutsche Bank, where he worked for 14 years until 2013.

5: How Are NGOs Addressing Human Rights in Conflict Areas?

Investors often play up the merits of active engagement with companies. But how does that work with sovereign nations, specifically with conflict-affected regions that generally fall on investors’ exclusion lists? Harriet Lamb explains how the role of NGOs like International Alert are working to provide guidance to sectors like extractive industries who involved in conflict affected regions. She also provides suggestions for how investors can work with NGOs – much as they have in climate change policy – as a means towards conflict resolution.

Harriet Lamb CBE

Harriet Lamb CBE is the CEO of peacebuilding charity International Alert. Before joining Alert, Harriet was CEO of Fairtrade International from 2012–2015 and Executive Director of the UK-based Fairtrade Foundation from 2001–2012. At the World Development Movement (now Global Justice Now), she campaigned for the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Sales, against export credits for arms sales to repressive regimes. Her awards include a CBE in the New Year Honours List 2006, Credit Suisse Business Woman of the Year and Cosmopolitan Eco-Queen.

6: 2018 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge

Listen to an inside account of the 2018 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge, from judges’ commentary to a final interview with the winning team from Singapore Management University. Learn how the winning idea – the ASEAN Storm Resilience Fund – not only helps farming communities in Southeast Asian countries to withstand extreme weather events but accomplishes this through grassroots-led microfinancing and an innovative feature to development impact bonds.

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The first podcast season’s topics range from Professor Mike Cho's views on South Korean corporate governance reform efforts, to David Wood of the Harvard Kennedy School reasoning for why economic inequality is one of the defining issues of our time and what we can do to address it.

1: Corporate Governance Reform in South Korea

Professor Mike Cho describes why South Korean corporates have historically underperformed their global peers on corporate governance metrics, and why the new administration under President Moon promises to usher in a spate of reforms in this area. What will this mean for family-run Korean conglomerates, otherwise known as chaebols? How is South Korea adopting national governance models towards the launch of their own Stewardship Code?

Professor Myeong Hyeon (Mike) Cho

Professor Myeong Hyeon (Mike) Cho is a professor of strategy at Korea University Business School and also serves as the President of Korea Corporate Governance Service. Professor Cho has worked as a member at various government committees such as the National Economic Advisory Committee and Financial Service Advisory Committee. Prior to joining Korea University, he worked as an assistant professor at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

2: The Challenge of Accounting for Rights and Ethics

Professor Ken McPhail discusses why rights – human, political, social, labour or environmental – have historically been so difficult to define, and why the S (Social) in ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) analysis provides an opportunity to better develop accounting practices for assessing the costs of rights to society, investors and corporates. How do we begin to quantify what human rights risks pose for society and investors? Can there ever be a path towards an international-recognised ethical accounting standard? How is technology changing our conception of human rights to now include the loss of privacy?

Professor Ken McPhail

Professor Ken McPhail is Vice Dean for Social Responsibility within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester. Professor McPhail oversees the strategic development and implementation of the University’s distinctive social responsibility agenda. In addition, Professor McPhail also sits on the University’s Social Responsibility Governance Group which is chaired by the Vice Chancellor and Principle. Professor McPhail's work is focused on various aspects of accounting ethics and corporate accountability.

3: The Case for Natural Capital Accounting

Ece Ozdemiroglu explains why current accounting methodologies like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) used to measure economic and financial performance misrepresent the underlining value of our natural resources, from fisheries and forests to mineral deposits and water resources. How will natural capital accounting help us to more sustainably manage our resources over the long-term?

Ece Ozdemiroglu

Ece Ozdemiroglu is the Founding Director of eftec. She is also a member of the Climate Change Committee Adaptation Sub Committee and the Natural Capital Initiative. She specialises in interpreting economic value evidence for natural capital, ecosystem services, cultural heritage, charitable sector and value of information. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy and has co-edited or co-authored 11 books.

4: The Case for Going Tobacco-free

Dr Rachel Melsom describes why investor engagement with the tobacco industry, relative for instance to the fossil fuel industry, is futile because of its negative health and social repercussions. She also explains why international policy momentum – the WHO Tobacco Convention, the UN Global Compact Statement and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – provide a framework to understand the broader socio-economic implications of tobacco, and the momentum behind recent investor announcements to go tobacco-free.

Dr Rachel Melsom

Dr Rachel Melsom is Director of Tobacco Free Portfolios for the UK and Europe, and a practicing Doctor. Tobacco Free Portfolios focuses on the medical and societal cost of continued investment in the Tobacco Industry, addressing the effect of the product and the wider cost of smoking to society, encouraging Tobacco Free Investment. Rachel also works part time in the Department of Medicine for the Elderly (DoME) at Worthing Hospital in Sussex.

5: Economic Inequality: the Defining Issue of our Time

David Wood describes the evolution of responsible investment – its approaches and institutions like the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment – over the last decade. Wood also explains why the need for a framework to economic inequality is essential in understanding the systemic risks it represents for society at large. How have the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals dimensionalised inequality, enabling a better understanding for investors? How can we reconcile the rise of populism in the United States with the policies under the Trump administration that would appear to exacerbate economic inequality?

David Wood

David Wood is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and the Director of the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School. Current projects range from work with pension fund trustees on responsible investment policies, mission investment by foundation endowments, research on the changing nature of the supply for and capacity to receive capital for community investment in the US, and a global survey of the relationship between public policy and impact investment. Recent work includes the Handbook on Responsible Investment Across Asset Classes (Boston College, 2007).

6: The Role That Education Will Play in Tackling Climate Change

Charles Donovan explains why it is critical for universities to develop postgraduate programmes that formally address the financial challenges and investment opportunities of climate change. Does the establishment of Imperial College’s Climate Finance Centre represent greater private sector job opportunities in climate finance and strategy? What kind of curriculum can students expect to study towards a MSc or PhD, and what kind of climate finance research is Imperial producing?

Charles Donovan

Charles Donovan is Director of the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College Business School and Principal Teaching Fellow in the Department of Management. In his corporate career, he was most recently Head of Structuring and Valuation for Alternative Energy at BP, where he managed a team responsible for the analysis and financing of large renewable energy projects. He was part of the strategy team that launched the alternative energy division in 2005, with a commitment from BP to spend US$ 8 billion over 10 years, and participated in a number of strategic acquisitions.

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